Is there a way to permanently store eststo?

[Jay Jeong]

I posted this question also to StackOverflow.

My code is complicated that it has many "clear all" commands.

Is it possible to store eststo so that it does not wiped out by clear command?

I want those stored eststo to use later.

[Jared Greathouse]

No.

[Mike Lacy]

Per Jared's comment, I can't think of a direct way to do this with -eststo- (See -ssc describe estout- for this package.) However, one could use the built-in -estimates save- command to save each estimate to a file, to be retrieved later and then manipulated, possibly with -eststo- or other commands in -eststoo-. I'm thinking of something like this, which may or may not be relevant to Jay's purposes:

clear all
sysuse auto
regress price weight mpg
estimates save c:/temp/model1  // Use a perm file so as to survive -clear all-
//
regress price headroom foreign
estimates save c:/temp/model2
clear all
est dir // for demo
forval m = 1/2  {
  estimates use c:/temp/model`m'
  eststo test`m'
}
est dir

[Jay Jeong]

Per Jared's comment, I can't think of a direct way to do this with -eststo- (See -ssc describe estout- for this package.) However, one could use the built-in -estimates save- command to save each estimate to a file, to be retrieved later and then manipulated, possibly with -eststo- or other commands in -eststoo-. I'm thinking of something like this, which may or may not be relevant to Jay's purposes:

clear all
sysuse auto
regress price weight mpg
estimates save c:/temp/model1 // Use a perm file so as to survive -clear all-
//
regress price headroom foreign
estimates save c:/temp/model2
clear all
est dir // for demo
forval m = 1/2 {
estimates use c:/temp/model`m'
eststo test`m'
}
est dir

Thank you! I will try this now as you suggested.

[Jay Jeong]

Per Jared's comment, I can't think of a direct way to do this with -eststo- (See -ssc describe estout- for this package.) However, one could use the built-in -estimates save- command to save each estimate to a file, to be retrieved later and then manipulated, possibly with -eststo- or other commands in -eststoo-. I'm thinking of something like this, which may or may not be relevant to Jay's purposes:

I did and it worked!!!
Since I am in environment where copy and paste is not allowed, let me put it as a screenshot.

[Jared Greathouse]

Yeah the offending thing in this case would be clear all. If you didn't use that, then okay, but otherwise you'd need to save it to a tempfile, which I guess is also the solution!

[Mike Lacy]

In creating the preceding fragment, I learned that -clear all- removes tempfiles, but -clear- doesn't.

[Bert Lloyd]

Per Jared's comment, I can't think of a direct way to do this with -eststo- (See -ssc describe estout- for this package.) However, one could use the built-in -estimates save- command to save each estimate to a file, to be retrieved later and then manipulated, possibly with -eststo- or other commands in -eststoo-. I'm thinking of something like this, which may or may not be relevant to Jay's purposes:

clear all
sysuse auto
regress price weight mpg
estimates save c:/temp/model1 // Use a perm file so as to survive -clear all-
//
regress price headroom foreign
estimates save c:/temp/model2
clear all
est dir // for demo
forval m = 1/2 {
estimates use c:/temp/model`m'
eststo test`m'
}
est dir

There is also Ben Jann 's excellent estwrite / estread package, which enhances built-in estimates save considerably IMO:

https://github.com/benjann/estwrite